Project Manager

Job Summary
The Project Manager plans and manages medium-to-large sized projects of moderate-to-high complexity, or portfolio of medium-to-small projects, and ensures project results contribute positive business value and meet agreed on scope, cost, schedule, and quality objectives. The Project Manager will be accountable for the project team's day-to-day execution and compliance with prescribed methodology process, including project charter development, project initiation and facilitation, project plan development, risk and issues management, quality planning, and communications planning.

Essential Functions

Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders

Develops and manages cross-functional IT projects, application implementation, and infrastructure initiatives

Works with business groups to create and manage project priorities and clearly communicate these priorities to technology partners.

Ability to create and manage a two year technology project road map with high level delivery milestones to manage stakeholder expectations.

Works with NiSource technology partners to ensure projects are delivered on time Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies issues, and devises contingency plans

Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts within the project team

Ensures that work is carried out to a high standard and complies with the PMO guidelines

Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path

Estimates, Plans, schedules, and tracks project timelines, milestones, financials and deliverables using appropriate tools

Develops clear and concise documentation to identify processes, problems, and action plans as well as design attractive and simple sketches, charts, diagrams, and other illustrative material to facilitate communication of complicated topics

Provides frequent on-site monitoring and enforcement of schedules, milestones, and vendor accountability

Facilitates collaboration across multiple functions, departments, and levels and serves as a role model for teamwork

Maximizes availability of all IT equipment and infrastructure through continuous improvement and continuously looks to improve efficiencies and cost reductions accordingly

Liaises and negotiates with contractors and external suppliers to clearly communicate technical issues, and seeks economies of scale

Improves quality results by implementing unit, system and integration testing cycles

Proactively identifies and communicates risks to project development and schedule

Monitors and drives resolution of issues

Adheres to Governance, PM methods, and tools/templates as appropriate

Required Qualifications For Position

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field

3+ years of project management experience

7+ years of overall work experience

Experience with project cost management and resource capacity planning

Experience with business process development and change management

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field

Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management and SDLC methodologies and tools

Agile process experience for application implementation

Basic understanding of IT Enterprise technologies

Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines

Strong planning, organizational, and leadership skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to make effective presentations and communicate technical concepts to non-technical clients

Extensive knowledge of project management processes, systems development methods, organizational change management concepts, and business process improvement methods

In-depth knowledge of project planning techniques and automated project planning tools required

Ability to work in a team environment

Ability to build strong relationships with NiSource technology partners

Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills

Preferred Additional Qualifications for Position

Experience in the utilities industry

Cloud-based, SaaS, and on premise application implementation and integration experience

2+ years of supervisory experience

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI Upon Hire

Physical Demands


The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and re